01/17/18 - What Difference Did a Revolution Make? Military Service in Post-1952 Bolivia

What Difference Did a Revolution Make? Military Service in Post-1952 Bolivia

01/17/2018, 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

January 17

2018/01/17 19:00

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

2018/1/17

07:00 PM

2018/1/17

09:00 PM

History Comes Alive Lecture Series 2017-18What Difference Did a Revolution Make? Military Service in Post-1952 BoliviaSpeaker: Liz Shesko

Within 16 months of seizing power, the leaders of Bolivia’s 1952 Revolution had nationalized the three largest tin mines, enacted agrarian reform in favor of small producers and granted universal suffrage. The new administration faced a dilemma, however, over the military. How would it deal with this powerful institution that had dominated Bolivian politics for decades? This lecture explores the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement’s conflicted relationship with the military and how military service changed after 1952.

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History Comes Alive Lecture Series 2017-18What Difference Did a Revolution Make? Military Service in Post-1952 BoliviaSpeaker: Liz Shesko

Within 16 months of seizing power, the leaders of Bolivia’s 1952 Revolution had nationalized the three largest tin mines, enacted agrarian reform in favor of small producers and granted universal suffrage. The new administration faced a dilemma, however, over the military. How would it deal with this powerful institution that had dominated Bolivian politics for decades? This lecture explores the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement’s conflicted relationship with the military and how military service changed after 1952.